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<span class="top">The Book of 1st John</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">4:1</td>
<td>Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.</td>
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<td class="v">4:2</td>
<td>Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:</td>
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<td class="v">4:3</td>
<td>And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.</td>
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<td class="v">4:4</td>
<td>Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.</td>
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<td class="v">4:5</td>
<td>They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.</td>
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<td class="v">4:6</td>
<td>We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.</td>
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<td class="v">4:7</td>
<td>Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.</td>
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<td class="v">4:8</td>
<td>He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.</td>
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<td class="v">4:9</td>
<td>In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.</td>
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<td class="v">4:10</td>
<td>Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.</td>
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<td class="v">4:11</td>
<td>Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.</td>
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<td class="v">4:12</td>
<td>No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.</td>
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<td class="v">4:13</td>
<td>Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.</td>
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<td class="v">4:14</td>
<td>And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.</td>
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<td class="v">4:15</td>
<td>Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.</td>
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<td class="v">4:16</td>
<td>And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.</td>
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<td class="v">4:17</td>
<td>Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.</td>
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<td class="v">4:18</td>
<td>There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.</td>
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<td class="v">4:19</td>
<td>We love him, because he first loved us.</td>
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<td class="v">4:20</td>
<td>If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?</td>
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<td class="v">4:21</td>
<td>And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.</td>
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